Is_Admin not working on WP 3.3.1

I think you may be confused by the function’s name (it can be a bit ambiguous); is_admin() returns true if a user is viewing an administration screen and returns false on any front end page.

Function Reference/is admin

If you want to check if a user is logged in on the front end, you can use is_user_logged_in().

Function Reference/is user logged in

If you want to check to see if a logged in user is an administrator, you can use the current_user_can() function, like so:

if ( current_user_can( 'administrator' ) ) {
    /* Your code */
}

Function Reference/current user can

You can also check for a capability that only an administrator would have rather than specifically for the administrator role, like so:

if ( current_user_can( 'update_core' ) ) {
    /* Your code */
}

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Roles_and_Capabilities

Hi Big Bagel,

I got confused by the function name indeed, but echoing the results of the is_admin() return a null string in either case, and this doesn’t sound normal. Is it?

Thanks
Andrea

It doesn’t actually return a null string. It returns a boolean (a true or false value)… which you can’t echo directly because it contains no characters. You would have to test whether it’s true or false and tell PHP to echo something on each condition. For example:

if(is_admin() === true) {
     echo 'true';
}
else {
     echo 'false';
}

The function really is doing exactly what it’s supposed to do. ??

Thank for the hint.